Grass height in cow nutrition: size does matter

by José Luis Urrea | Dec 21, 2019

Unlike humans, cows have the ability to convert grass into foods of high nutritional value such as meat and milk. This is because one of their stomachs, rumen, is responsible for the fermentation process that converts pasture into milk precursors. However, other...

Conservation agriculture meets relay cropping

by Rosemary Nzuki | Jun 28, 2019

Authors: Job Kihara, Isaiah Nyagumbo, Dias Domingos and Michael Kinyua Climate change and variability are resulting in reduced and sometimes lost productivity requiring substantial changes in farming practices. Traditional practices involving excessive tillage...

Webinars help journalists navigate climate change and agriculture storytelling

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Mar 27, 2019

A series of webinars on climate change and agriculture allowed a panel of scientific experts and more than 100 journalists to discuss how to cover these stories in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa and Southeast Asia. The series featured scientists from the...

On International Women’s Day, let’s think about gender equality

by Sylvia Pineda | Mar 5, 2019

On International Women’s Day, Bioversity International and the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) partnered to think about how and why gender matters in agriculture and natural resource management (NRM), and to acknowledge those women who, through...

Navigating coverage of climate change and agriculture: CIAT and partners host webinars for journalists this February

by CIAT Comunicaciones | Feb 6, 2019

Agriculture is both a driver and a casualty of climate change. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimates that 10–12 percent of human-produced greenhouse gas emissions come from agricultural activities. These emissions, in turn, contribute to...